If the USADA's "Review Board" upholds these charges, the USADA has the power to strip Armstrong of his 7 Tour de France victories and ban him from all further participation in organized sports.

We've now read the USADA's allegations in detail. They're similar to the allegations that have been made in increasing detail against Armstrong for years.

We've spelled them out in the following slides.

In addition to accusing Armstrong of blood-doping, the USADA alleges that he and the other "co-conspirators" organized a decade-long cover-up that included lying under oath and retaliating against witnesses.

Armstrong quickly and emphatically denied the charges. As he has before, he did not just invoke the typical carefully worded statement about never having failed a drug test. Rather, he said, definitively, that he has "never doped."

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Seriously, who gives a damn? His story does more good than any of his critics will ever do even in their wildest dreams. I could not care less if he doped himself out of his mind to get to where he got after his near-dead condition

Even if they strip him of all titles, people - me included - will always remember mister Armstrong as the first seven-time Tour de France winner. It makes little difference. Without going into if Lance Armstrong used illegal substances or not, doping is part of the sport, whether people like it or not, and if athletes get away with it, good for them. Shows they're not only phenomenal performers, but great and cunning strategists as well. To be doped, and at the same time passing countless drug tests, is no easy feat! Gladiators were doped as well and people didn't give a damn. We just want our heroes.